The evident failures of international peacebuilding and statebuilding interventions (PSBIs)
have recently prompted a focus on the interaction between interventions and target societies …

Joanne Wallis is a lecturer in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National
University. She has previously taught at the University of Cambridge, the University of …

International peace-and state-building interventions have become ubiquitous in
international politics since the 1990s, aiming to tackle the security problems stemming from …

By the end of the 1960s the process of decolonization had practically run its course in
Southeast Asia. One exception, however, was tiny Portuguese Timor, where notions of self …

This article examines the experiences of women occupying reserved seats on the suku
councils of Timor-Leste (each of which represents a number of small villages). The limited …

This thesis examines the impact of coexisting modern and traditional governance institutions
as they are experienced in the villages of Timor-Leste. Within some development theory and …

Since the end of the Cold War, considerable scholarly debates have been devoted to the
nature and scope of international state-building interventions in 'fragile', post-colonial states …

Decentralisation may play a role in building new and post-conflict states; where liberal state
institutions are often built before a transition from local to state-level modes of political …

East Timor's twin experiences of colonialism established its collective identity and internally
recognised rights of self-determination. Political boundaries were created through …

31 Modernising Timor-Leste: Moving beyond ideology Damian Grenfell1 The context for the
foreign presence discussed in this essay Page 1 209 31 Modernising Timor-Leste: Moving …